Earth’s Water
LEVELED BOOK • H
A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 240
Written by Katherine Scraper
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Table of Contents
Water Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Different Forms of Water . . . . . . . . 7
Changing Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Water Is Important . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Table of Contents
Water Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Different Forms of Water . . . . . . . . 7
Changing Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Water Is Important . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Water Everywhere
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Water is in ponds, lakes, and oceans.
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
It flows in rivers and streams.
It is in the air and frozen as snow
and ice.
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The dark parts in this picture of Earth are water.
Most of Earth is covered with water.
Plants and animals need water
to live.
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The dark parts in this picture of Earth are water.
Most of Earth is covered with water.
Plants and animals need water
What are some ways you use
to live.
Earth’s water?
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Each of these containers holds four cups of water.
Different Forms of Water
Most of the water we see is a liquid.
Liquid water takes the shape of the
container it is in.
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Ice can be carved into many shapes.
Each of these containers holds four cups of water.
Not all water is liquid.
Different Forms of Water
Most of the water we see is a liquid.
When water gets very cold, it freezes.
Liquid water takes the shape of the
It becomes solid.
container it is in.
Solid water is called ice.
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Sheets of ice cover Earth’s South Pole.
Much of Earth’s frozen water is at
the North and South Poles.
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What forms of water can you see in this picture?
Sheets of ice cover Earth’s South Pole.
Some of Earth’s water is invisible.
Much of Earth’s frozen water is at
It is in the air.
the North and South Poles.
This water is a gas.
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The sunlight heats up the snow, and the snowman melts.
Changing Water
Water is always changing.
When frozen water is heated, it melts.
It changes to a liquid.
When liquid water gets cold, it freezes.
It changes to ice.
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The sunlight heats up the snow, and the snowman melts.
Energy from the Sun causes the water to evaporate.
Changing Water
Water is always changing.
Have you ever seen a puddle
When frozen water is heated, it melts.
of water dry up on a hot day?
It changes to a liquid.
Energy from the Sun changed the
When liquid water gets cold, it freezes.
liquid water into a gas.
It changes to ice.
This is called evaporation.
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Clouds drop water on the desert as rain.
When invisible water in the air
gets cold, it can make clouds.
Clouds are tiny drops of liquid water.
Those drops can get bigger.
Then they fall as rain.
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Clouds drop water on the desert as rain.
When invisible water in the air
gets cold, it can make clouds.
Water Is Important
Clouds are tiny drops of liquid water.
Rain keeps plants alive.
Those drops can get bigger.
We fight fires with water.
Then they fall as rain.
Animals take baths in water.
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polluted
not polluted
It is important to take care
of Earth’s water.
Polluted water makes people, plants,
and animals sick.
Would you want to drink and
play in polluted water?
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Glossary
evaporation (n.) process of drying up that
changes liquid to gas (p. 12)
freezes (v.)
ets so cold that it turns into
g
a solid from a liquid (p. 8)
gas (n.)
n invisible substance that
a
can change shape and size
(p. 10)
invisible (adj.)
unable to be seen (p. 10)
liquid (n.)
substance that takes the
a
shape of the container it is
in and keeps its size (p. 7)
melts (v.)
turns from a solid to liquid
when heated up (p. 11)
polluted (adj.)
made dirty or harmful (p. 15)
solid (n.)
substance that keeps its
a
shape and size (p. 8)
polluted
not polluted
It is important to take care
of Earth’s water.
Polluted water makes people, plants,
Index
clouds, 13
polluted, 15
evaporation, 12
rain, 13
Would you want to drink and
gas, 10, 12
solid, 8
play in polluted water?
liquid, 7, 8, 11, 12
and animals sick.
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Earth’s Water
LEVELED BOOK • H
A Reading A–Z Level H Leveled Book
Word Count: 240
Written by Katherine Scraper
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for thousands of books and materials.
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Earth’s
Water
Written by Katherine Scraper
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Correlation
LEVEL H
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Reading Recovery 13–14
DRA
14